The Sunday Times Number One bestseller from the author of How to Build a Girl about a young woman making it in a world where men hold all the power.
Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children, home-educated on a
council estate in Wolverhampton, believing that if she were very
good and worked very hard, she might one day evolve into Bill
Murray.
She published a children's novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the
age of 16, and became a columnist at The Times at 18. She has gone
on to be named Columnist of the Year six times. At one point, she
was also Interviewer and Critic of the Year - which is good going
for someone who still regularly mistypes 'the' as 'hte'. Her
multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman has been published
in 28 countries, and won the British Book Awards' Book of the Year
2011. Her two volumes of collected journalism, Moranthology and
Moranifesto, were Sunday Times bestsellers, and her novel, How to
Build a Girl, debuted at Number One, and is currently being adapted
as a movie. She co-wrote two series of the Rose d'Or-winning
Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves with her sister, Caroline.
Caitlin lives on Twitter with her husband and two children, where
she spends her time tweeting either about civil rights issues, or
that picture of Bruce Springsteen when he was 23, and has his top
off. She would like to be remembered as 'a very sexual
humanitarian'.
Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a
bump
*HELEN FIELDING, bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary*
It's quite a ride, this book. It's laugh-out-loud funny, sweetly
romantic and fiercely angry. Often all at once ... beautifully
written
*THE TIMES*
A deeply satisfying tale of sex, drugs, britpop, unrequited love,
London, and a narrator I completely adore. This is funny,
philosophical, and poignant in equal measure. Glorious and
life-enhancing
*NINA STIBBE*
Brilliantly funny, caustic social commentary with the best-wish
fulfilment revenge scene I've read, like, ever
*THE POOL*
A rollicking fantasy which leaves a rosy afterglow
*GUARDIAN*
A glorious life-affirming love letter to teenage girls, pop music,
best friends and that one guy you'll never get enough of
*RED MAGAZINE*
Moran's words are, as always, kind, tender and achingly funny. This
is a real love letter to teenage girls and North London - if this
book was a popstar I'd be putting its posters up on my wall and
doodling its name all over my Maths book
*DAISY BUCHANAN, bestselling author of How To Be A Grown-Up*
On every page you'll find yourself tits-deep in word treasure. A
filthy, gutsy, exhilarating call to arms
*EMMA-JANE UNSWORTH, bestselling author of Animals*
A machete-sharp follow up [to How to Build a Girl] ... boasts a
rogue's gallery of brilliant characters familiar to anyone who has
ever read the NME
*IRISH INDEPENDENT*
The dazzlingly gifted Moran makes mythic the maligned,
misunderstood, momentous 1990s. Prose crackling and fizzing with
charm, mischief and passion, she is the sharpest, funniest, most
influential writer of her generation, which is also my generation,
annoyingly
*STUART MACONIE*
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